Being Someone Else

Could I have been someone other than who I am? Philosophers from Williams to Nagel to Lewis have been tempted to answer 'yes', but how can we make sense of such a view? I argue that to say that it is contingent who I am is to say that it is contingent what perspective I have, in a distinctively metaphysical sense of perspective

What if someone asked "What if?"

Research Highlights was a newsletter highlighting the research being done at the Boston University School of Management (Questrom School of Business).MBC (MANAGEMENT BY CURIOSITY) The great advances always come from asking the right questions. The questions throughout this booklet reflect some of the ways Boston University School of Management alumni have transformed academic experience into professional results. Curiosity is a positive force, because good management is about exploring, not accepting. It's about revision, refinement, and rethinking rather than regurgitation. It's a matter of taking the heat rather than taking shelter. It's a career of challenging yourself and your employees continually to improve the quality of your products and service. And it's the kind of management you'll learn at Boston University

There\u27s Someone More Lonesome Than You

[Verse 1] You say you’re feeling blue, You don’t know what to do, And as each day goes by, It seems the same to you, Then picture in your mind, Someone you left behind, A simple country cottage, And in there you will find. [Chorus] There’s someone more lonesome than you, Someone with true eyes of blue, Day by day she wanders through the wildwood, Dreaming of the love that once she knew, She’s waiting and sighing in vain For you promised you’d be true, While you’re living in the bright lights with the merry and the gay, There’s a loving heart you’ve broken just to pass the time away, And she is more lonesome, more lonesome than you. [Verse 2] You say the world in wrong, The brook still sing it’s songs, The meadow grass is green, Go back where you belong, And make her poor heart glad, She wants you mighty bad, Just think how long she’s waiting, And if you’re feeling sad. [Chorus] Poem: (recited during the second chorus) LONESOME, one little word but oh what it means A word that portrays a thousand sad scenes, Picture, a dog and his master, whom no one could save, As he sits there and whines o\u27er his master\u27s grave. Though he kicked him and beat him when it comes time to part, Even a dog dies of a broken heart. · Picture some old mother all wrinkled and gray. Her son\u27s at the front fighting day by day; Her poor heart grows weary, she\u27s soon laid to rest And God only know, it was from lonesomeness. Take a lad who is lonely, in, some lonesome town. He does a great wrong, two old heads are bowed down, A year or two passes, and the prodigal son Returns, is forgiven, when all\u27s said and done. But put the poor girl in the lonesome lad\u27s place, The wrong\u27s not her fault still her name\u27s in disgrace, Does someone forgive the prodigal girl? No, they drag her down lower to the gut of the world. Then they all wonder why she is walking along, Selling her soul for the price of a song- So think of the girl when you\u27re lonesome and blue- For she is more lonesome, more lonesome than you

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Has someone already spent the future?

A look at how four trends in the U.S. economy -- high taxes, low savings rates, an aging population, and astronomically high health care costs -- could constrain Americans' living standards over the next few decades.Budget deficits ; Saving and investment ; Insurance, Health

The Violence of Silencing

I argue that silencing (the act of preventing someone from communicating, broadly construed) can be an act of both interpersonal and institutional violence. My argument has two main steps. First, I follow others in analyzing violence as violation of integrity and show that undermining someone’s capacities as a knower can be such a violation. Second, I argue that silencing someone can violate their epistemic capacities in that way. I conclude by exploring when silencing someone might be morally justifiable, even if doing so is an act of violence

Third time\u27s the charm: Choosing a career in librarianship

While many come to librarianship from other careers, I made my third major career change to the profession after a somewhat atypical process. I made myself the subject of a formal assessment process while completing a certificate program in career counseling. One of the first things we learned in the career counseling program is that most people take essentially an opportunistic path to their various jobs and careers, e.g., you know someone who does something that sounds sort of interesting, or someone knows someone else who needs someone… It’s often a very generic process and is, in fact, why so many people end up doing jobs that are not a good match for their temperament, interests, and skills. I quickly realized that I was one of those people who had more or less stumbled into my previous careers

Someone please, tell me: Was this Sexual Assault?

Prose by Kareen Casillas. *Author’s Note: Please take care of yourself when reading the following piece, as it may be triggering. Contains images of sexual assault